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Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Sexual Health: Implications for Couples Therapists

Auburn University, cobiadc{at}auburn.edu

Kathy Robinson

Auburn University

LaWanda Edwards

Auburn University

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects approximately one in four women every year and approximately one third of all female victims of homicide are killed by an intimate partner. The negative physical and mental outcomes of IPV and the sexual manifestations of these outcomes are identified. Furthermore, the implications of these outcomes for couples therapists are identified.

Key Words: intimate partner violence • domestic violence • sexual violence • couples therapy

This version was published on July 1, 2008

The Family Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, 249-253 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480708317670


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